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304 or if you are more adventurously disposed you may still be sailed?. The Pacific railway is at present opened for traffic as far as Shyenne. It is however completed for thirty miles further, to Fort Sanders and Halleck?. This takes you into the very heart of the Mountains. I had the offer of being carried on to this point, if I wished it, on a construction train, + I have no doubt but that the engineer or contractor wd grant the same favour to any traveller who wished it. This wd bring you also out upon one of the most celebrated sporting ground of the Mountains, the Laramie Plains. or if you cd not manage it in this way, or if you take wagon and mules, it wd be better to leave this rail? at Shyenne. You would then start at once for the present terminus of the railway; + after having kept a course of North by West for thirty or forty miles, you wd find yourself on the Laramie Plains. This is not a park among the Mountains but a vast expanse of open table-land. One advantage you wd have on this ground is that a detachment of the United States Army is quartered up here, + the officers are always ready to give any assistance? in their power to gentlemen who are out on the Plains for sporting. What calls for more expertise in unclear who camp out on the Laramie Plans is that they are still open to Indian raids, + that they are exposed, as might be expected, to very violent wind-storms.